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[lyssie]

HOW AWESOME IS EDDIE IZZARD? THIS AWESOME: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8256589.stm

(also, Obama posed with some cheap plastic light sabres. HOW DID WE MANAGE A PRESIDENT THAT AWESOME?)

In music video news, I finally watched the Beyonce and Taylor Swift videos.

I... ok. Don't take this the wrong way, but, FUCK has the music video industry gotten SHITTY.

Beyonce's Single Ladies vid won best vid of the year... really? It's three scantily-clad women bouncing. wtf. wtf. Also? En Vogue called. They'd like their money for the vids this ripped off. So did Madonna over Lucky Star.

Taylor Swift.... Well. Annie Lennox's 'Walking on Broken Glass' called. it wants its sets and costumes back. Or were those outtakes from the latest Pride & Prejudice remake?

To cleanse my brains, I actually went and watched me some Annie Lennox. eta: and some En Vogue, though I couldn't find the 'never gonna get it' vid on short notice. sigh.

Comments

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

He also flinches like a girl, see:



AHAHAHAHAHA

[psychesky.livejournal.com]

I think the thing about the Beyonce vid is that the dancing is crazy, and a redo of some classic Fosse routines. Not saying it's the best video (I don't watch music videos anymore for the most part) but I did think it was pretty cool looking.

[stars-like-dust.livejournal.com]

Taylor Swift's was for "You Belong To Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AHzIq_n-DQ)" not "Love Story" (which I think is the one you referenced - Love Story's the one with the Pride and Prejudice costumes). I actually really liked the vid that won - it was cute and adorable and clearly very girly and teenage, but that's her market and exactly what she was aiming for.

Obama is pretty cool, yes. Light sabers FTW.

[zahdahe.livejournal.com]

EN VOGUE Never Gonna we there not 4 of them at that time brilliant video (the skintight pvc out is just naughty) Girls kicked ass.

Annie Lennox's vids always a delight and awe inspiring!

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I've had "Walking on Broken Glass" running through my head about every other workday morning for a month or so, and can't figure out why. *narrows eyes* YOU did this somehow, didn't you?

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

I think I stopped watching music videos in about 1996 for a reason. Though part of me thought it was because MTV completely stopped playing them. Which gives a good reason why no one would make cool ones. (Unless you count the rap opera of Trapped in a Closet, which I find lolarious.)

Eddie Izzard is so crazily awesome. I love him even more than I did before, which I always thought would be impossible.